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Merz booed by trade unionists

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May 12, 2026

Amid heckling from the audience, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has defended the urgency of a reform of Germany's pension system at the Federal Congress of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) in Berlin.

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